church suffering
Americannoun
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The Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement all passed without the church suffering vandalism or attack, according to available records.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020
Half an hour after they began to discuss it, everybody felt that not only was the church suffering severely, but that they had been the unconscious witnesses of a domestic tragedy.
From The Second Chance by McClung, Nellie L.
Here is another class in a nearby church, suffering not only from moral and intellectual neglect, but from physical as well.
From The Girl in Her Teens by Slattery, Margaret
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